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THE TRAVELS OF SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE THE PROLOGUE FOR as much as the land beyond the sea, that is to say the Holy Land, that men call the Land of Promission or of Behest, passing all other lands, is the most worthy land, most excellent, and lady and sovereign of all other lands, and is blessed and hallowed of the precious body and blood of our Lord Jesu Christ; in the which land it liked him to take flesh and blood of the Virgin Mary, to environ that holy land with his blessed feet; and there he would of his blessedness enombre him in the said blessed and glorious Virgin Mary, and become man, and work many miracles, and preach and teach the faith and the law of Christian men unto his children; and there it liked him to suffer many reprovings and scorns for us; and he that was king of heaven, of air, of earth, of sea and of all things that be contained in them, would all only be clept king of that land, when he said, REX SUM JUDEORUM, that is to say, ‘I am King of Jews’; and that land he chose before all other lands, as the best and most worthy land, and the most virtuous land of all the world: for it is the heart and the midst of all the world, witnessing the philosopher, that saith thus, VIRTUS RERUM IN MEDIO CONSISTIT, that is to say, ‘The virtue of things is in the midst’; and in that land he would lead his life, and suffer passion and death of Jews, for us, to buy and to deliver us from pains of hell, and from death without end; the which was ordained for us, for the sin of our forme-father Adam, and for our own sins also; for as for himself, he had no evil deserved: for he thought never evil ne did evil: and he that was king of glory and of joy, might best in that place suffer death; because he chose in that land rather than in any other, there to suffer his passion and his death....

THE WHITE MOLL by Frank Packard CONTENTS CHAPTER I. NIGHT IN THE UNDERWORLD II. SEVEN-THREE-NINE III. ALIAS GYPSY NAN IV. THE ADVENTURER V. A SECOND VISITOR VI. THE RENDEZVOUS VII. FELLOW THIEVES VIII. THE CODE MESSAGE IX. ROOM NUMBER ELEVEN X. ON THE BRINK XI. SOME OF THE LESSER BREED XII. CROOKS vs. CROOKS XIII. THE DOOR ACROSS THE HALL XIV. THE LAME MAN XV. IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER XVI....

THE WORKS OF CHARLES AND MARY LAMB IV. POEMS AND PLAYS [Illustration: Charles Lamb (aged 23) From a drawing by Robert Hancock] POEMS AND PLAYS BY CHARLES AND MARY LAMB INTRODUCTION The earliest poem in this volume bears the date 1794, when Lamb was nineteen, the latest 1834, the year of his death; so that it covers an even longer period of his life than Vol. I.–the “Miscellaneous Prose.” The chronological order which was strictly observed in that volume has been only partly observed in the following pages–since it seemed better to keep the plays together and to make a separate section of Lamb’s epigrams....

[Illustration: A TROPICAL SCENE] [Illustration: THE WORLD OF WATERS THE WORLD OF WATERS, OR, A Peaceful Progress o’er the Unpathed Sea. BY MRS. DAVID OSBORNE. With Illustrations. 1852. Contents CHAPTER I. The Wilton Family.–Story of Frederic Hamilton CHAPTER II. The Wiltons.–Dora Leslie.–Charles Dorning.–The Mediterranean. –Corsica.–Candia.–Rhodes.–Malta.–Valetta.–The Caledonia. –A Story by Krummacher.–Adriatic Sea.–Venice.–Turkish Rowers.–Elgin Marbles.–Isle of Wight.–Thunder Storm.–Jersey. –Romaine’s Journal.–Slave Ship.–Horrible Cruelty.–Slave Trade. –Wreck of the Royal George.–Eddystone Lighthouse CHAPTER III. The Wiltons....

PROLOGUE. IN THE MARQUESAS. It was about three o’clock of a winter’s afternoon in Tai-o-hae, the French capital and port of entry of the Marquesas Islands. The trades blew strong and squally; the surf roared loud on the shingle beach; and the fifty-ton schooner of war, that carries the flag and influence of France about the islands of the cannibal group, rolled at her moorings under Prison Hill. The clouds hung low and black on the surrounding amphitheatre of mountains; rain had fallen earlier in the day, real tropic rain, a waterspout for violence; and the green and gloomy brow of the mountain was still seamed with many silver threads of torrent....

TO THE GOLD COAST FOR GOLD A Personal Narrative BY Richard F. Burton AND Verney Lovett Cameron In Two Volumes–Vol. I. TO OUR EXCELLENT FRIEND JAMES IRVINE (OF LIVERPOOL, F.R.G.S, F.S.A, &C.) WE INSCRIBE THESE PAGES AS A TOKEN OF OUR APPRECIATION AND ADMIRATION FOR HIS COURAGE AND ENERGY IN OPENING AND WORKING THE GOLDEN LANDS OF WESTERN AFRICA ’Much have I travelled in the realms of gold’ SHAKESPEARE PREFACE....

Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice OR The Wreck of the Airship by VICTOR APPLETON CONTENTS I ERADICATE IN AN AIRSHIP II ANDY FOGER’S TRIPLANE III ABE IS DECEIVED IV TOM GETS THE MAP V GRAVE SUSPICIONS VI ANDY’S AIRSHIP FLIES VII READY FOR THE TRIP VIII A THIEF IN THE NIGHT IX A VANDAL’S ACT X TOM IS HELD UP XI OFF FOR THE FROZEN NORTH XII PELTED BY HAILSTONES XIII A FRIGHTENED INDIAN XIV THE RIVAL AIRSHIP XV THE RACE XVI THE FALL OF THE ANTHONY XVII HITTING THE ICE MOUNTAINXVIII A FIGHT WITH MUSK OXEN XIX THE CAVES OF ICE XX IN THE GOLD VALLEY XXI THE FOGERS ARRIVE XXII JUMPING THE CLAIMXXIII ATTACKED BY NATIVES XXIV TEE WRECK OF THE AIRSHIP XXV THE RESCUE-CONCLUSION CHAPTER I ERADICATE IN AN AIRSHIP “Well, Massa Tom, am yo’ gwine out in yo’ flyin’ machine ag’in to- day?...

George Washington FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1789 The Nation’s first chief executive took his oath of office in April in New York City on the balcony of the Senate Chamber at Federal Hall on Wall Street. General Washington had been unanimously elected President by the first electoral college, and John Adams was elected Vice President because he received the second greatest number of votes....

Images provided by: Million Book Project. Post-Processing : Wilelmina Malliere. WHAT EIGHT MILLION WOMEN WANT [Illustration: CONVENTION OF OUR WOMEN AT HOTEL ASTOR, NEW YORK] WHAT EIGHT MILLION WOMEN WANT BY RHETA CHILDE DORR 1910. TOTHE AMERICAN REPRESENTATIVESOF THE EIGHT MILLION–THE EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND MEMBERSOF THE GENERAL FEDERATION OFWOMEN’S CLUBS–THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED Many of the chapters contained in this volume appeared as special articles in Hampton’s Magazine, to the editor of which the author’s thanks are due for permission to republish....

WHAT I SAW IN CALIFORNIA A Description of Its Soil, Climate, Productions, and Gold Mines; with the Best Routes and Latest Information for Intending Emigrants. By EDWIN BRYANT Late Alcade of San Francisco. To which is annexed, an Appendix Containing official documents and letters authenticating the accounts of the quantities of gold found, with its actual value ascertained by chemical assay. Also late communications containing accounts of the highest interest and importance from the gold districts....

WHAT IS YOUR CULTURE TO ME? By Charles Dudley Warner Delivered before the Alumni of Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y., Wednesday, June 26, 1872 Twenty-one years ago in this house I heard a voice calling me to ascend the platform, and there to stand and deliver. The voice was the voice of President North; the language was an excellent imitation of that used by Cicero and Julius Caesar. I remember the flattering invitation–it is the classic tag that clings to the graduate long after he has forgotten the gender of the nouns that end in ‘um–orator proximus’, the grateful voice said, ‘ascendat, videlicet,’ and so forth....

Withered Leaves from Memory’s Garland By Abigail Stanley Hanna. “There comes a voice that awakes my soul; It is the voice of years that are gone,– They roll before me with all their deeds.” 1857. Preface These pages were not written for public inspection; but to beguile the weary hours of indisposition, and present a record of thoughts and sentiments to the eyes of my children, after my lips are sealed in death....

I do not recall distinctly when it began, but it was months ago. The general tension was horrible. To a season of political and social upheaval was added a strange and brooding apprehension of hideous physical danger; a danger widespread and all-embracing, such a danger as may be imagined only in the most terrible phantasms of the night. I recall that the people went about with pale and worried faces, and whispered warnings and prophecies which no one dared consciously repeat or acknowledge to himself that he had heard....

THE ORDEAL OF RICHARD FEVEREL By George Meredith 1905 BOOK 5. XXXIV. CONQUEST OF AN EPICUREXXXV. CLARE’S MARRIAGEXXXVI. A DINNER-PARTY AT RICHMONDXXXVII. MRS. BERRY ON MATRIMONYXXXVIII. AN ENCHANTRESS CHAPTER XXXIV It was the month of July. The Solent ran up green waves before a full- blowing South-wester. Gay little yachts bounded out like foam, and flashed their sails, light as sea-nymphs. A crown of deep Summer blue topped the flying mountains of cloud....

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century Volume VI, 1583-1588 Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne....

THE POWER AND THE GLORY By GRACE MACGOWAN COOKE Author of “Mistress Joy,” “Huldah,” “Their First Formal Call,” etc. WITH FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS BY ARTHUR I. KELLER 1910 TO HELEN CONTENTS CHAPTER I. THE BIRTH OF A WOMAN-CHILDII. THE BIRTH OF AN AMBITIONIII. A PEAK IN DARIENIV. OF THE USE OF FEETV. THE MOCCASIN FLOWERVI. WEAVERS AND WEFTVII. ABOVE THE VALLEYVIII. OF THE USE OF WINGSIX. A BIT OF METALX. THE SANDALS OF JOYXI....

That application of the sciences of biology and geology, which is commonly known as palaeontology, took its origin in the mind of the first person who, finding something like a shell, or a bone, naturally imbedded in gravel or rock, indulged in speculations upon the nature of this thing which he had dug out –this “fossil”–and upon the causes which had brought it into such a position. In this rudimentary form, a high antiquity may safely be ascribed to palaeontology, inasmuch as we know that, 500 years before the Christian era, the philosophic doctrines of Xenophanes were influenced by his observations upon the fossil remains exposed in the quarries of Syracuse....

WARNINGS AND DISCLAIMERS Transcriber’s Note: This tract on health, like many published last century, is essentially an advertisement of a particular form of treatment invented and sold by the author. While it is of interest in historical terms, it should not be relied upon as medical advice. This e-text “Royal Road To Health” is for historical and educational purposes only. This antiquated information is not presented with the intention of diagnosing or prescribing....

THE STOKESLEY SECRET by Charlotte M. Yonge CHAPTER I. “How can a pig pay the rent?” The question seemed to have been long under consideration, to judge by the manner in which it came out of the pouting lips of that sturdy young five-year-old gentleman, David Merrifield, as he sat on a volume of the great Latin Dictionary to raise him to a level with the tea-table. Long, however, as it had been considered, it was unheeded on account of one more interesting to the general public assembled round the table....

THE STORY OFA PIECE OF COAL WHAT IT IS, WHENCE IT COMES,AND WHITHER IT GOES BYEDWARD A. MARTIN, F.G.S. 1896 PREFACE. The knowledge of the marvels which a piece of coal possesses within itself, and which in obedience to processes of man’s invention it is always willing to exhibit to an observant enquirer, is not so widespread, perhaps, as it should be, and the aim of this little book, this record of one page of geological history, has been to bring together the principal facts and wonders connected with it into the focus of a few pages, where, side by side, would be found the record of its vegetable and mineral history, its discovery and early use, its bearings on the great fog-problem, its useful illuminating gas and oils, the question of the possible exhaustion of British supplies, and other important and interesting bearings of coal or its products....